This banjo by Rusworth & Dreaper in Liverpool, (Apollo model) has beenmodified by the changing of the skin with a metallic soundboard...This part, engraved of esoteric designs, showing two outline side-faces, A & B,on both sides of a five points star. On the right, an arc with seven divisions and five stars,is terminated in a right hand opened on the side-face B... A series of ten stars (five points) go along the lower partOn the left, another arc with seven divisions and four stars, is also terminated in a left hand opened on the side -face A.The center of this metallic soundboard is decorated with an incomprehensibleand illegible design...